In a scene Jules Verne decided to leave out of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the captain is in port attending a retirement seminar run by a team of female financial planners when he realized that he was not putting away nearly enough to be comfortable in his golden years.

After bitter, frank, painfully open campaigns that left everyone on edge debating whether to ban the sale of the meat of young calves, a Southern California city managed to say out of the way of an all out pitched battle over it.

The guy who just graduated from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga is going to get a job at an internet startup trying to discover patterns or relationships by collecting, searching through, and analyzing large amounts of information about blue jeans wearing and buying habits using computer files at Levi's.,

An order to clean a large soup serving bowl noticed by Ruth, who is undergoing tests to determine her expertise in running cameras to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems.

A contestant on "Chopped" comments that his competition's Italian dessert with coffee and liquor-soaked layers of sponge cake alternating with mascarpone cheese and chocolate is crazy good, the only entry which is a huge, powerful threat to his winning, so he is going to damage it.

Lee and his wife have been having a lot of problems with contractors doing work on their house, and have had to let several of them go. She tells him that it is her opinion that they should also get rid of the drain cleaning service they have hired.

Mimicing a famed nursery rhyme, this palindrome and pun is about how a famed New York Giant linebacker is told the story of a young girl whose young male sheep was run over by the District attorney Hyman.

Nat is told that an alien characterized Derek, a hire on their company's computer systems in the capitol of the Byzantine empire, as a) a colossal drunk, and b) one on whom they were throwing their money away.

[Some of you will be old enough to remember this.] Line of dialogue from a play in which a Uganda strongman reacts quizzically as he is watching the exciting finish of the Oakland Raider/New York Jet football game on November 17, 1968, as it was cut short for a movie.

A 1960s diplomat explains to an aide, in staccato fashion what's going on. That he's heading to an area of danger, intrigue, dissension, and instability. Highest priority. To North Viet Nam where things are tense.

When The Nautilus surfaces near the far eastern end of the Mediterranean, the captain's second in command suggests to him that the crew be given some of the dark, heavy malt beverage brewed in a major Israeli city nearby.

A colleague of Robert points out to him what he has found, a variety of festive conferences on writing sequences of computer instructions in abbreviated form, all to be held on the largest of Spain's Balearic Islands.

A disgruntled former member of a Roman Catholic prelature, featured in Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code, suggests that homemade, makeshift bombs be lobbed into their headquarters to get their habitually drunken leader.

Having had just about enough from a young whipper-snapper at at Federal Reserve Board meeting in the 1990s, the chairman lashes out at the young man using a disparaging term indicating that he is not Jewish and saying that his suggestions have no chance ever to be adopted.

I tried out a tiny bit of French when I was speaking to my friend as I was describing what my very unhappy reaction reaction would be at the Baseball Hall of Fame's introduction of a lifesized 3-D display of wax figures noting the misdeeds of McGuire, Bonds, Clemens et al.

A young woman who expected to be at her coming our party described how she awoke sunburned, naked and muddled and confused, but still breathing, to see a surgeon looming over her holding a tool and about to amputate her leg.

A motorcycle jumper extraordinaire, attending a banquet given by America's space agency gets a splitting headache and is told that the guest of honor, Kenyan and US Collegiate star runner Henry has something he can take for relief.

After the dust up in the Moms Over Forty Soccer League game in Barcelona, one of the players explains to the referee what happened: one of the women, Rosemary, offered a woman on the other team poison so that she could kill herself, as she was such a fat pig.

A terse note of irritation sent by Von, who owned a small business, to his father who was in charge of hiring, after they had seen a man who had interrupted the interview by asking if e-cigarettes were OK at the company when the job ad had clearly said that was against company policy.

After a Mexican man queried hospital staff about how NBC football analyst and booth partner of Curt Gowdy had been transferred to Houston for cancer treatment, he was corrected about who drove him there.

Vincent and others are charged with developing a new translation for a popular version of the Bible and they are discussing a particularly thorny passage where the committee is going to have to vote on what is the best way to go. Vincent thinks that all is set for the vote, but he is a questioned about whether or not that is true.

While at the barn on a farm where milk cows are raised, McGarrett questions his right hand man about whether they had discovered the haul from a burglary which had been smuggled in from Aleppo. And if so, to put it onto the seat farmer uses to milk the cows.

When Stuart brought his car in to the body show to have it thoroughly cleaned and for minor repairs to improve its appearance, he left a box of Krispy Kremes in the car. When he got the car back they were gone, and he tried to blame the manager Eli or the guy who had worked on his car. Reporting this to the owner, he gets this rebuff in denial:

What you might call it when an attendant at the concession stand at a performance of "The Pirates of Penzance " storms down the aisle and takes back a Starbucks steamed espresso from a patron who had skipped the line to pay.

(1) A top notch company which owns and finances income producing real estate in"The Biggest Little City in the World."
(2) Unfortunately, I note that they use lots of their income to buy high grade marijuana.

A South American pack animal animal relegated to a petting zoo at a local shopping center owned by the Luft family tells Tina how he just feels used as some kind of prop and sadly yearns be running wild.

Suggestion to alphabetize the small restaurant/nightclubs of the European style located in this Central African country, but serving for Russian expatriates living there the good old home cooking that they were used to as they recall the days on the frozen tundra.

When soldier Tino complains about the quality of the water his unit had to drink, his CO slangily lets him know that considering that the unit had been pretty bad at their jobs recently, it was what they deserved.

What a boy said to his uncle from Acapulco on the occasion of a visit to them in the 1920s from the head of the Soviet Union, reminding him that he should start cooking breakfast, hominy, as their foolish obstinate guest was just waking up, and that he should really get a move on to be sure the food was ready.

Celebrity chef Paula, in this line of dialogue from a play, tells Emily that there is no pleasure in arguing with her over the menu,but really there should not be containers of Pringles and not many customers like melted cheese and bread for dipping.

When the big time party goer got drunk and fell down passed out at the frat party, a physics major suggested that they used a long steel bar a la Archimedes to get him up, It almost works, but someone lost their grip. So this suggested was made, to try it again.

After a young country singer duo had been turned away by a record producer, Scruggs, who had been studying German, sent his partner back in to talk to them to try, above all, to make the case against the company's argument for not picking them up. This is what Scruggs said.

Someone tells Lee that in his opinion the remains of Castro are being held, isolated in a town he just made up, roughly somewhere between Amarillo and Brownsville, which is remote and just seems to be a long way from everything.

Diana was asked if the art work in an early twentieth century style often expressing nonsense, irrationality, and bourgeois protest, anti-art to some, was based on an advertisement for this, which had been seen by [her assistant] Ada.

Describing a hitchhiking right wing idealogue, author, and movie maker D'Souza to a group of people from a subculture favoring dark themes and melodies in music and a dark and morbid aesthetic, as he told them where in Oklahoma he needed to get to.

I am pretty very impressed with the movie I produced and directed about how our 16th president, melancholy though he could be, was really excellent in an aggressive, tough, intimidating way, as suggested by the slangy title.

When a man thinks he has won $10,000,000 in a horse race, and has his friend point out that it is really only about $150,000 as the winnings had been posted in Indian Currency, a friend points out his error.

Line of dialogue in a play wherein a girl discovers that she is supposed to provide drinks and snacks for her father's buddies when they come over, so she asks if perhaps she could prepare for someone, say hot peppers stuffed with cheese, or perhaps a frappe of rum, coconut, pineapple juice.

With the national championship on the line, and behind by 1 point with .1 seconds left on the clock, ambidextrous Evelyn is to shoot two free throws. A fan explains to his wife Nina why the opposing team in the lead just called time out, giving her time to stew over which hand she would shoot with and the enormity of the situation.

When a man hears from his friend, local warden Dominick, that there are job opportunities for guards who will monitor dial up access to the internet by the inmates, he is excited about it and asks for a job.

Olivia is a diehard conservative who thinks the "death tax" is immoral. After her friend hears Olivia goes on a tirade about it the friend sends a text wondering why. But she makes a typo, causing the text to autocorrect, accidentally creating the palindrome below that Olivia in turn cannot fathom: why in earth anyone would think that her body ink picturing her country home would be a bad thing.

A woman who accompanied her "Roots" star friend to an auction and watched him continue bidding on on an expensive piece that had gone way beyond its estimated value, responds in the negative to Diana who had asked if he ever finally chickened out and quit.

In a [thankfully!] deleted scene from Pagliacci, the clown explains to his pal Salvador that one final thing he does not care for in the magic show they have gone to see is when they do coin tricks. [WHY HE SPEAKS IN THE THIRD PERSON AND IN SOUTHERN USA COLLOQUIALISMS IS ANOTHER MIND TWISTER.]

When Bin Laden needed to make bronze he found he had the copper but was short on the other needed ingredient, so he asked asked one of his henchmen to get some, and the fellow replies that he already has someone working on it, namely the woman by whom he has children. [DON'T ASK ME WHY THEY ARE SPEAKING ENGLISH, ESPECIALLY LIKE THIS.]

A rep for a drive-in restaurant had been speculating about whether this San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles had enough economic activity, and. concluding that it didn't, questions councilwoman Deirdre on whether she agrees that it could use one of his franchises.

After enduring a screaming fit following a fender bender with one of his rivals leaving the calf roping competition, a cowboy tries to calm things down by politely informing him that if he doesn't control his temper he could burst an artery.

The head county prosecutor asks his assistant Sy to evaluate the writing assignments he had given to one of his assistants, Bo, who even though he turned them in after the deadline, had produced an excellent product.

When we found out that for a fee one could reserve a place during the church service for couples with very young children who might need to be changed, well, after we stopped laughing out butts off we signed up for a whole year in advance.

Comment from TV chef Paula when she is informed that she was responsible for making the evening meal for the cat, indicating that she intended to go all out and had to have cooking vessels to perform the task.

Response to Lonnie who is trying to recall a famous auto race in France, after hearing him go. " The 24 hours of Paris. No, the 24 hours of Nice. No, the 24 hours of Bourdeaux. No,......" for long enough.

A woman who shares a name with supermodel McPherson and who had been named queen of Mexican Fast Food in this city, the southernmost in Palm Beach County Florida, in this palindrome which is also a pun on the named of one of the local restaurants.

It seems that there was a Civil War re-enactment taking place at the Daytona 500. One of the organizers expresses regret that one of the star race drivers, who won this event 4 times, chewed out a student from a local military academy who was performing the part of a confederate solider in the re-enactment.

Stopping at a way station on hi way up Pike's Peak, which would later be named after him, this explorer is asked by the proprietor if he is sure he doesn't want to have the axles on his wagons greased.

A consortium of markets for cured, then smoked, brisket, run by a group of Brahma devotees from Calcutta who have relocated to the mountains in Switzerland, cheer at regulations promulgated by the National Institutes of Health.

When the aliens visited the US, they decided not to stay on their ships for the most part, but to rent rooms at from a prominent economy hotel chain noted for its name and which would make the accommodations easily findable from the mother ships above. Their rental agreement was known as the:

The king's daughter, who had joined a troupe doing variety skits between acts at the local theatre, demanded that she be provided with lanolin based skin care products which are one of Proctor and Gamble's billion dollar brands.

When Tom, a prominent playwright wrote and directed a new play, it contained a seance scene, the spooky sounds of which he thought would be better conveyed if done live by a stage hand by beating into with kitchen utensils rather than using the theatre sound board. In a rehearsal he stopped because he said he could not hear the sounds at all. The chastised stage hand responds that he had indeed made the required noise.

I tell Patricia that on today's walk around the streets of a Central Florida city, I note that a food truck business, owned by several female college students and specializing in leftovers from the college cafeteria, is on the verge of opening.

Calvin, taking part in a drug efficacy study, thinks and hopes to himself that he is not a part of the control group in the double blind study, as he is feeling much better and wants it to be the real thing, actually working.

Headline from an article in a financial help magazine, alerting readers to a scam involving retirement accounts invested in visual art which often gives the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or of swelling or warping.

A policeman is informed that a burglary may be taking place near Arrowhead Stadium at a business which sells waterproofed protective canvas coverings and is named after a nursery rhyme character, as the door is slightly open.

After his defeat in the 2012 presidential election, Gov. Romney decided to shake things up for Christmas dinner by having Italian, A diner guest questions him on it, and his choice of where to buy, the food section of a major clothing retailer?

Incredulous, an Arkansas resident of a town named after a mythic Spanish city of gold and immortalized in verse by Edgar Allan Poe, tells Yankee Alex Rodriguez and Leonard that a guy names Nils who has known ties to Mideast terrorists has been spotted working out in a local club.

The seven of them had gone out to eat, but an argument had ensued and Enid had had her feelings hurt, so she left and decided to walk back to the hotel instead of take a cab, while the rest remained, some carrying on with dinner as though nothing had happened and others unable to eat, remorseful at the unfortunate turn of events.

A woman in The Hamptons, finding that she is missing a common sweet extract she needs for the cookies she is baking, panics and asks her husband Von to get some from their next door neighbor, the "Barefoot Contessa."

It seems that there was quite a buzz around a high school in New Rochelle, New York, as a rumor spread that the upcoming Advance Placement exam would be held near a famous beach in Rio, [ which was quite exciting, of course], but in an " I wouldn't lie to you" statement, the counselor confirms to the students that the rumor is wrong and that the exam will be at the local college instead.

Words spoken on Christmas morning by his parents to a young boy who would grow up to become a defensive superstar for the 1990s era Dallas Cowboys, as he gazed upon the sea of toys he wanted, like He-Man, Thomas the Tank Engine, Hot Wheels, Rugrats, and Cabbage Patch Kids, to name a few.

After Captain Hook's sidekick had beaten himself up pretty badly over his poor job of investing the Captain's booty, the captain tried to cheer hm up by reminding him of his good decision to invest in the farming of large flightless Australian birds.

An veteran solider tells his daughter Emily of the time when, injured on the battlefield, he thought he saw his unit's Swedish born medical officer, just as if he actually had all his faculties, even though he was really totally out of it.

It seems that Ohio State football coach circa 2015 was chasing Edward, who he felt had discourteously defamed him with lies, along a railroad track in a handcar. But even though an obstruction on the track caused his car to wreck, the coach got him anyway.

Stuart's mother exults to him at being so proud that her son was a college student at a branch of the University of Texas, in a city where, when visiting him, it would be easy to get in a trip to The Alamo.

On a business trip to Des Moines, Lew has asked a group of local businessmen and farmers what the region's consensus outlook is for the price of crude, and they tell him that they think it will fluctuate a lot.

A man needing to use video editing software tells a Middle Eastern friend that the bottom line is, the prospect of having to use Apple's product makes him want to puke. That it's an order of magnitude worse worse than anything else.

As they sail on in the quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason responds to crew member Alvin who had asked for rolled oats, brown sugar, nuts, dried fruit, in a bowl of milk for breakfast, telling him that have none.

A cab driver whose girl friend Eve has been selling methamphetamines out of his vehicle suggests that one or the other of his passengers, actor McGregor or gossip columnist Barrett, help him ditch the goods in the river early the next morning.

You probably didn't know that the librarian in "The Music Man" later went to med school and become an obstetrician. The later during the Six Day War she volunteered to fight. Instead of being nerdy and meek, she became
fanatically militant and violently aggressive as she fought in the desert. This palindrome is a news report about that.

Comment regarding a prominent American economist, that his suggestions ( hearkening back to an ancient Greek statesman and his code of laws) can can be pretty severe, harsh, even cruel, certainly not ones destined to make him the life of the party.

Allen is told that this woman, a member of the West Point softball team who played the same position as her hero, a Brooklyn Dodger stalwart catcher of the 1950s, and claimed that she played with his his same flair and style, did not, in fact. It was all a scam.

After someone asks the ship's captain if the presence on the crew of a young woman named Reba was a harbinger of changes to come in sailing crews, he responds in the negative that it was just a one time deviation from the norm.

Sue us told by the boss at the travel magazine that he is going to put a cap on, no more than that, he cannot stand, stories on the cultural environment and vibe of this, the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia.

As Ed is going to eat at a restaurant run by singerAni Di Franco, he is told that he should order the absolutely delicious, decadent savory egg dish she concocted using mild, hard, yellow cheese and cooked in a vessel which has leftover traces of the aroma of a popular simmer citrus drink made with licorice, which had been made in it earlier. He says it it the best!

A devout member of the Cistercian order of Christian monks asks his superior if he should not bad mouth some recent converts to the order, recent graduates of the University of Texas, who not only do not observe the vow of silence, but regale themselves late into the night like the frat boys that they were.

Headline in a New jersey newspaper when a university in South Orange was granted possession for its archives of a trove of the original handwritten papers that Muhammad produced as he was receiving the word from God.

When his wife accused him of getting senile and forgetful, racing Hall of Fame trainer Bud, who trained Spectacular Bid to 2/3 of the Triple Crown in 1979, asked her for proof, examples of his lapses. In this palindrome she cites his recent trip to the grocery store were he was supposed to get both cantaloupes and their favorite furniture polish, but didn't, even though they were right there on the list.

When a prominent TV chef discovered that she was supposed to make the evening meal for the cat, well, she didn't just open a can, she said she was going all out and couldn't do it without equipment, cooking vessels, etc.

It is little known but true: after his army days in Viet Nam, Lieutenant Bill Kilgore of "Apocalypse Now" fame went to work for the College Board. Many years later when they were considering a proposal for an Advanced Placement exam in the common markup language used for creating web pages, he put his foot down, and suggested that the project be blown out of the water with what he so fondly remembered smelling from his Nam days. And the sooner the better.

The owner of a business which specializes in very unusual projects on behalf of clients gives one of his employees a choice of assignments for the day, take back a hydroelectric project which the owner has failed to pay for, or release a herd of does and bucks being illegally held by a spaced out drug user.

I tell Dee that I am certainly going to seriously consider my boyfriend's offer, in a note he left me, to go hiking in the mountains located in northwestern Wyoming just south of Yellowstone National Park.

Emily is told that the famed Washington DC socialite and "hostess with the mostest" really regretted her purchase of several painting by a French pointillist impressionist, one of whose paintings was made into a Stephen Sondheim musical.

It seems that Emily has an aging friend who likes to drop LSD. Since it has become unaffordable for someone living on a fixed income, Emily wonders if perhaps it could be considered "medicinal" and covered by the government. Patiently and tenderly the friend responds in the negative.

I tell my Dad that Tim Cook and company have really angered the folks at the firm they hired to assist them with their obligations under a federal law that establishes minimum standards for pension plans in private industry and which provides for extensive rules on the federal income tax effects of transactions associated with employee benefit plans.